Thaught it might be a good idea to start a container post. Either ideas for containers, places to buy or sales that you have seen.

I will start with army surplus ammo containers. I found nice size ones at Mills Fleet Farm in Fargo and Fergus Falls for $3.50 US on sale. Excellent condition and a great price from what I have seen. I picked up 13 of them for future hides. These are great for in the bush not so great for urban caching.

Ditto on Lee Valley magnets (small and powerful), old magnets from hard drives are awesome too! Sounds like Fargo has a very good price on Ammo containers. If you want a very good inexpensive container that has held up very well for us check out Player tobacco containers which you can often pick up at Goodwill stores or Value village. Screw on lid for 25 c a pop that holds up under extreme temperatures and moisture well.

Where does one find cheap detox containers? Those are very nice but we've used none since we've found none anywhere yet.

Last spring Cabelas in East Grand Forks had a great big parking lot sale and were selling ammo cans for $1 US. Gord and I looked at them but decided we may have trouble getting them across the border as they had arabic writting on them and had a lot of sand in them. A good deal but we decided to pass. Deals like this will probably show up in various places in the US from time to time.

Next time we went down we looked for them at Cabelas again but they were sold right out and all the new ones they sell are plastic and expensive.

Recently I've noticed that the Lock n' Lock Containers are becoming very popular. They are also available at most big stores Wal-mart, Zellers, Superstore, ect. These containers come in all different shapes n' sizes, multi packs and have a great seal when snapped shut. A little cammo tape and your off.

I’ve got a little problem with Lock ‘n Locks. The Turdle-femme has found my stash of Lock ‘n Locks and has found they also make great lunch containers. My problem is, even after eating the meatloaf, the container is still no longer useable as a cache container because it has had food I it. Has anyone else run into this and how did you resolve it?

I noticed a shipment of lock & locks of a few different sizes at Dollarama last week. Ok, so they're not actual lock & locks. But the mechanics are similar. Four tabs that close over the edges of the container.

I went to Army Surplus yesterday. There were about 200 ammo cans there. The ones that are 15.00 at Princess Auto are 13.00 at Army Surplus. And they are clean. They have TONS of those smaller 10.00 containers.

If you want to break the bank, you can spend around 40.00 on a container big enough to hold one of Bevro's dogs, and likely both of grnbrg's! Although they wouldn't be happy about it.

Visited a hand painted MHz cache just yesterday and it seemed to be holding up quite well. I bet it’d be completely invisible against a leafy background!

Thanks to you and Lizardo for checking on it! Been watching for foot prints at 1st landing all winter! That one actually has many coats of paint on it. I tried one color combo, took it to the cache site and one or more colors made it stand out. So I took it back and tried again. The 5th try seemed to work the best. Don't ask me to reproduce it as I can't remember which combo worked but I suspect some of the first 4 paint jobs are still poking through too. None of the other caches I have took quite as long to match up as 1st Landing did. MHz

The real object of container consideration in Manitoba should be "Is it TurdleEggs-PROOF?". And after witnessing one searching "accident" (Teal's Treasure) I have strongly suggest STURDY (bear proof, bullet proof, & even T proof) containers.

Unfortunately some containers that are inexpensive do not survive the "boot test". Especially when it is cold out - some plastic containers get REALLY brittle. That's why I like covering my caches in camo duct tape because it adds to the structural integrity of the container, as well as making it harder to find.

So, whenever I consider a container for the cache, the really important question "Is it sturdy enough to survive a caching accident (>cough TurdleEggs

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